Archive for 8/1/10 - 9/1/10

Main Street in Kentwood had a blast from the past as cars from the 1940′s era were brought in by a production crew for the filming of a scene for an upcoming movie. Although crews on site would not confirm, a representative from SPAD films told Kentwood Rotary members at a meeting last month that the company would be filming “On the Road.” The movie is being based on a novel by Jack Kerouac. The cast of the movie reportedly includes Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Tom Sturridge, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams, and Viggo Mortensen.

Talk about a fashion statement: "I wore a T-shirt in kindergarten that said, 'Kick butt first. Ask names later,' " Kristen Stewart, who's notoriously wary of the paparazzi and the press, tells Britain's Telegraph newspaper. "I've always been overly indignant in my reactions to not being able to be myself."

That struggle to have some space is tougher since she became famous, but it's always been a theme of Stewart's life – and it put her on a collision course with classmates at school when she started doing movies as a pre-teen.

"I didn't walk around talking about doing movies," says the Twilight star, 20, "but then someone saw an old movie I was in, [2001's] The Safety of Objects, and realized that the little boy in it [she played a tomboy] had grown up into this girl – me. And then I got a lot of, 'She's such a bitch!' And yet most of these kids had never even spoken to me."

Stewart says she was glad to leave school. She was missing a lot of classes and getting failing grades, and her interactions with her peers didn't improve.

"I couldn't relate to kids my own age," she says. "I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about 5. I remember when I turned 18, everyone asked me if I felt more mature, but I felt the same as I always did. Juggling work and school, and helping my mother; I've always had a lot of responsibility."

And she continues to have a temperamental streak. In the Telegraph interview – which coincides with last week's U.K. release of her Joan Jett biopicThe Runaways – Stewart once again relates her exasperation with Hollywood's attempts to package her.

"When I did the first Twilight movie, they were like, 'Now you have to go and do media training,' " she says. "And I was like, 'Screw you! Do you think you are going to wrap up all my little insecurities and throw them out the window? Do you think you are going to put soundbites in my mouth? I'll do your course, but that's not going to happen.' "

Glamour is looking to crown Britan's most fashionable men and women of 2010. Some firece looking Brits on the list but we all know who needs to win....so vote Robert Pattison HERE! (must vote for a fashionable women first and then the men's poll shows up)

Robert PattinsonHis Style: Tartan lumberjack shirts and jeans when out and about, drool-inducing tailored suits and skinny ties, when on the red carpet make R-Patz one of the hottest contenders for the style crown.

Chicago Now blogger Matt Pais has listed Kristen as one of his favorite celeb interviews. It's worth to note that Robert Pattinson was on Matt Pais list of "good interviews that didn't make the cut", thanks Matt for this post :)

Kristen StewartAnyone who's seen her appearances on talk shows, award shows or red carpets probably would expect that the star of "The Runaways" and the "Twilight" series would be a terrible interview. So I was pretty thrilled to get a lot of great stuff out of Stewart, so much so that I became the envy of many of her fans on Twitter for a while. Proud of this one.

We told you yesterday about the somewhat surprising connection between Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" music video and Robert Pattinson's next flick "Water for Elephants," and luckily for us, MTV Movies Blog editor Adam Rosenberg got a chance to chat with that connection yesterday after "Bad Romance" won Video of the Year at the VMAs. Director Francis Lawrence teased a possible release date for "Water for Elephants" and also dished about his relationship with Gaga.
"I would love to [work with Gaga again]. No I haven't [heard from her] because I pretty much became unavailable right after [the 'Bad Romance'] shoot. I was off making 'Water For Elephants' for the better part of a year. But if she had a new song and wanted to do something, I would do it in a second," Francis shared. "She was really fun to work with."
Gaga's Little Monsters have their own brand of fan dedication, but it seems like no fandom can possibly come close to the insane dedication shown by Twi-hards. Francis said that, when comparing acolytes, it was the "Twilight" fans who made themselves most known.
"On 'Water For Elephants,' every day there would be, like, 50 people [staked out]," he recalled. "We shot in Tennessee for about a week and there would be people camped out in the hallways of our hotel. All day, all night long, it didn't matter. People were there to try to catch a glimpse. I'm proud of the movie, I'm actually sitting in the cutting room right now."
Even though filming wrapped at the beginning of August, Francis said he's not even close to being done with the editing process. "This is only my fourth week of cutting," he said. "Then I just took a quick two-week vacation, and now I'm cutting. So I'm probably cutting all the way up to Christmas. I think it's gonna be [a spring release], but it has not been confirmed yet."

It's tough being Kristen Stewart. Her performance as the indecisive, lip-biting heroine, Bella Swan, in the Twilight films has seen the 20-year-old American actress emerge as a rather reluctant poster-girl for 21st-century teenage angst. She has lived out much of her teens under the media spotlight: she had just turned 17 when she made the first Twilight film and, on its release, became an overnight sensation.

The franchise has gone on to make more than $1.75 billion (£1.1 billion) at the box office worldwide, attracting hordes of teenage fans and their equally smitten 'Twilight moms'. Meanwhile, Stewart's on-screen (and off-screen) relationship with her co-star Robert Pattinson has turned her into a regular on the covers of gossip magazines. It's not surprising that she has struggled to cope with the media attention, and her discomfort when dealing with interviewers has opened her up to accusations of being surly and defensive. I have not found her so on the previous occasions we have spoken. She can be unnervingly silent – she thinks carefully about each question and often has many stabs at a reply before settling on a finished sentence – but she is intelligent and engaging. In truth, like many women her age, she's probably just a little bit embarrassed. 'I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof,' she explains, sitting opposite me in a suite at a sumptuous Beverly Hills hotel. 'I get that all the time: "She should not be in this position because she can't handle it," and, "She is stuck up and doesn't want to talk to anybody. She is miserable, and if you are so miserable stop doing it." But do you have a choice? I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself. 'When I did the first Twilight movie they were like, "Now you have to go and do media training," and I was, "Screw you! Do you think you are going to wrap up all my little insecurities and throw them out the window? Do you think you are going to put soundbites in my mouth? I'll do your course, but that's not going to happen.'

Kristen Stewart began working at an early age, and says it wasn't always easy being one of the youngest people on set.

The Twilight Saga star -- who landed her first acting role in TV movie The Thirteenth Year when she was nine years old -- hated the way she was teased by her peers over her early roles, in particular when she played a tomboy in The Safety of Objects.

She said: “I didn't walk around talking about doing movies but then someone saw an old movie I was in, The Safety of Objects, and realised that the little boy in it had grown up into this girl -- me. And then I got a lot of, ‘She's such a b----!’ And yet most of these kids had never even spoken to me.”

The 20-year-old actress quit school when she was 13 and admits she was happy to leave the education system behind because she didn’t relate to her classmates. She added in an interview with the Daily Telegraph website: “I was glad to leave school. I was missing a lot of classes and they were failing me.

“I couldn't relate to kids my own age. They are mean and don't give you any chance. Once you have done with school, you realize that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

“I remember when I turned 18 everyone asked me if I felt more mature, but I felt the same as I always did. Juggling work and school, and helping my mother; I've always had a lot of responsibility."

Robert Pattinson, 24 years old, alias Rob Pattz his surname, given by milions of fans, makes pleasantly american big mainstream productions, but he is english ,not american. And carries with him a sort of british mithology that he surely embodies. He is surely an inalterable gentleman when he offers his jacket to an american trembling journalist. And he has also an elegant way of hiding himself and not bragging, and staight faced he says (making an impression to the listener) ” my hair represents the 75% of my performance on screen”, to explain his personal success in the role of Edward Cullen, the teen vampire from Stephenie Meyer’s Saga.

His British blood also is visible in his romantic features and body, perfect made for a re-adaptation of Wuthering Heights, or a movie adaptation of Jane Austen’s novels. Big “girlie” eyes, surrounded by big but well designed eyebrows, red lips, long limbed body, he was aware and bet on that androgynous appareance: “I begun as a model at six years. While I was growing and I resembled to a girl, he tells, I’ve worked a lot, because everyone wanted boys that looked like girls, but when I grow up and I became more masculine I’ve lost all my works, and nobody called me anymore”

When he was a child, he was envied by his older sisters for his beautiful curls and his “bambi”’s eyes. “until I became twelve, they dress me like a girl and they introduce me as “Claudia”". A sort of traumatic experience, but it did not change his tipically british phlegm. ”at twelve I went to a normal boarding school, I discovered hair gel and I became cool” And he is still cool.

Cinema enters his lifeLess you can say about him is that he is not megalomaniac. He became an actor making a tv series Nibelungs’ Ring and he really knew nearly nothing about acting. Her mother herself, a model agency director, did not believe in his future as an actor and told him to find other ways. And the beautiful Rob himself exceeds in depreciate himself, laugh at himself and cool humor : “when I was younger, I’ve been beaten a few times, but I was an idiot too, even if I think that that assoults to me were injustified, beacuse I started an actor career and I started also to behave the way I thought an actor had to behave, So this attitude was mistaken for a provocation, and so many people ended to have an invincible desire to hit me”

Did He suffered his blood to have Edward Cullen role?No, Pattinson was on his way and made a little step in this direction by playing a short role in Harry Potter, that made him known to the general audience. Even after he made the first Twilight movie he was not convinced about his talent and he left the theather during the Twiilight Premiere, because he didn’t want to see himself on screen.

As prevedible, “Twilight became a worlwide phenomenon, and Rob became the ideal prey for paparazzi and young girls, exited by his scruffy hair and his marble figure. But, even in that occasion, Mister Pattinson stayed cool, and used his humor to face off that situation: “I went to an autograph session in a convention, it has been one of the most interesting experience at all. It was so bizarre seeing so many people paying for an autograph,I will always say that I felt I had to do more for them, a little dance or something else” Anyway Rob, is always a little scared about the crowd, but he will come to tems withHe vampirize the screen

Even if he seems not to put himself really in things, Rob has a charisma like few important people. In Remember Me, a romantic drama, made between two twilight episodes, you can see only him, Rob, smoking cigarettes, one after the other, tormented by the thought of his brother Michael suicide. Rob destabilized by his father attitude, a business man that neglets his family, Rob’s overflowing tenderness for his sister, a talented girl, dedicated to painting. In brief, If we had the “skirt day”, now Remember Me is the “Rob’s Day” Tyler Hawkins, the movie’s hero is a young and angry guy”, he explains,serious for a while. “when I was nineteen, I had a short period of rage, like I was confused”. Angry Like Jack Nicholson, his idol?What we surely know is that Rob Pattz has the gift of ipnotize crowds, on screen and in the real life. Fans follow the adventures of the ipotetical couple that he made in the real life with his twilight co star, Kristen Stewart, but neither he or she confermed their relationship. He always says he is a bachelor. He says often that 99% of what tabloids say about him is false. So fans wait,and following his true love story, it seems that he is living his story with them too.

People like us, that see in this young actor, rock and roll style, sexy and different from any other actor, the true new blood of HollywoodSource